topic Required field not working in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/required-field-not-working/m-p/218252#M171382 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, I have created a simple model with 2 form properties variables.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The model has a start point, to the start i connected a user task, and connected the user task to end point.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>in the user task i added 2 form properties and set them with "required" attribute:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;extensionElements&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;activiti:formProperty id="SomeID" name="Some ID" type="long" required="true"/&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;activiti:formProperty id="SomeName" name="Some Name" type="string" required="true"/&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;/extensionElements&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>now i am trying to send http message to the Rest API (via C#) to complete the task.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When i send the request with no variables in json body -&gt; it is ok (get a response), how could it be ? shouldnt i get error message that the required variables are not in the json body? </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>second of all, when i am trying to send the json body variables, i get bad request message.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>the json body looks like:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>{\"action\":\"complete\",\"variables\":[{\"Name\":\"Some ID\",\"Value\":\"12345\"},{\"Name\":\"Some Name\",\"Value\":\"Moshe\"}]}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>what is wrong with this ? maybe the variable type in body invalid ? i have set SomeID to be long, and in the json body it is string, does it know automatically to cast string to long?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Dec 2015 11:53:00 GMT ilansch 2015-12-06T11:53:00Z Required field not working https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/required-field-not-working/m-p/218252#M171382 Hi, I have created a simple model with 2 form properties variables.The model has a start point, to the start i connected a user task, and connected the user task to end point.in the user task i added 2 form properties and set them with "required" attribute:&lt;extensionElements&gt;&lt;activiti:formP Sun, 06 Dec 2015 11:53:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/required-field-not-working/m-p/218252#M171382 ilansch 2015-12-06T11:53:00Z Re: Required field not working https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/required-field-not-working/m-p/218253#M171383 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>json in body is:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>"{\"action\":\"complete\",\"variables\":[{\"Name\":\"SomeID\",\"Value\":\"12345\"},{\"Name\":\"SomeName\",\"Value\":\"Moshe\"}]}"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The model WFWithVariables.bpmn20.xml looks like: </SPAN><A href="http://pastebin.com/CFyMDYJV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/CFyMDYJV</A><BR /></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Dec 2015 12:13:07 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/required-field-not-working/m-p/218253#M171383 ilansch 2015-12-06T12:13:07Z Re: Required field not working https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/required-field-not-working/m-p/218254#M171384 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No, the complete task method does not check form properties. You'll need to use the formService to do so.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:42:45 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/required-field-not-working/m-p/218254#M171384 jbarrez 2015-12-08T19:42:45Z